This is an analysis of the poem Not From My Dried Eyes To Cry that begins with:
I understand.
To not have been understood....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXabc cXbXdb abecae X bcebee XX fcfXdXa bX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,1,6,2,7,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101 0110101 100011001 11110111 111110 01010101 1110001101 01110010010 0010101101 01111101 11111110101 01010110101 111111110 1101011101 010101010 0011111 100100111 0110111011 100101011101 1011110101 01011001000100 01011101010 010110101 010101101010 0100110100101 10010101110 11110010011001 1101010110 1001110111 1110111010 0110001000101 1101110100101 11011101101 101110011101 1010011111 0101101011010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, and are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Not From My Dried Eyes To Cry;
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